Cspan. Org landmarkcases. Members of the British Committee on Digital Culture media and sport recently traveled to washington, d. C. For a day long discussion on the media and socalled fake news. Part of the event included officials from google and youtube and talking about guidelines of dealing with distribution of misinformation on such websites. This portion is just over an hour. Id like to welcome everyone to a special hearing on the house commons Digital Culture, media sports. And our inquiry into fake news and disinformation. We are thrilled to be here and absolutely delight with the support we received from George Washington university and grateful for their efforts in helping us put on these hearings here. This is the first time a select committee has taken live evidence in this way outside of the united kingdom. Im grateful for everyones work who made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well see today for their eviden
Whose made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well seed to for their evidence too. Just one small piece of House Keeping from the start. For people who are unfamiliar with the work of how fast commons select committees maybe more familiar with the work of congressional committees, its understood that anyone taking part in the proceeding of particle lent like this answers questions honestly and truthfully to the committee and its an offense to mislead parliament. Im nol not saying our witnesses would do that but we dont require them to swear an oath because under our rules its implied that theyre telling the truth. Well also we have a number of sessions to get through today and im conscious that we need to do that in good time gand order. Id like to ask the members of the committee to be clear in directing their questions to either individual members of the panel, be clear what theyre asking for as well. And just to say to the
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Teams love them. Advertisers may be running in a different direction. Well explain. First you start off with a developing story, for more mixed signals from the white house about the plan to fund the tax cut the administration promise ltd. Ermon. Reporter earlier in the afternoon, among the things the white house was considering, a vat tax. Value added tax and a carbon tax among republicans and conservatives up on capitol hill. We offered the white house the opportunity to knock down that reporting, say that wasnt so. They did not do that. They said everything was under consideration. Its early in the process, they werent ruling anything in or out. Theyre considering those ideas. That was the line earlier in the day, within the past hour, though, we got a new statement from the white house, they apparently are willing to knock down the 80 of the vat tax any time soon. As we have said many times, the president s team is hearing input from experts on all sides of the tax debate as we for
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